CRO @ Redfish Technology || Providing Disruptive Tech Companies w/ Talent || 24k Followers || Forbes Next 1000 || Girl Mom

Forbes 2021 - Next 1000 Honoree


Chief Revenue Officer at Redfish Technology, where I lead with empathy, strategic insight, and a commitment to building strong relationships. 

As Viola Davis once said, "My dreams are bigger than my fears."

Our Work

Helped a new VP of Sales at an Enterprise AI Client hire the first 3 members of his Sales Team: Our team consulted with the VP to identify the profiles he needed, researched and built a list of target companies to source from, then reached out nationwide to over 350 AEs in our network, interviewed/screened over 70, submitted 30 to the VP for review, and he hired 3 - saving 100’s of man-hours in the process.

We've built out and engineering teams with the top 30 startups across the country.

Placed Director of Growth at a Fintech Startup: After hiring the Director of Growth, we were asked if we could help with two PM roles, they were struggling with filling. We did so in about 5 weeks for both a Platform PM and Mobile PM. This led to an introduction to their Design team, where we have helped them hire 3 Sr. Product Designers.

Leah Scarnegi

Wrapping up 2025 at Redfish Technology 

This year was about prioritizing focus over volume—and building real partnerships, not transactions.

- Strong YoY growth
- Higher acceptance rates + repeat clients
- Faster time-to-fill on more complex, senior roles

But what mattered most?
 
Doing the work the right way—better discovery, tighter alignment, and a truly human approach to hiring.

Grateful for the clients who trusted us, the candidates who partnered with us, and the team that showed up every day.

Onward!


#2025InReview #RecruitingDoneRight #TechHiring #HumanCenteredHiring #RedfishTechnology

Leah Scarnegi 

CRO @ Redfish || Scaling Startups with the Right People || Blaine County Board of Education || Forbes 2021 - Next 1000 Honoree

Redfish’s real differentiator isn’t speed — it’s judgement.

The data backs it up:

• Discovery excellence shows up again and again as a leading indicator of successful outcomes.
• Clients respond to market insight, not just resumes in their inbox.
• Our content, workshops, and POV compound trust long before a search even kicks off.

In a market obsessed with velocity, judgement is what actually scales.

#redfishtechnology #recruiting #hiring

If you’re hiring PMs, ask yourself:

Do candidates have examples of things that didn’t work — and what they changed after?

Can they explain impact in metrics, not just features?

.......And if you’re a PM interviewing right now:

Your job isn’t to be impressive. It’s to be credible.

The best PMs don’t pitch perfection. They show judgment.

#productmanagement #product #hiring #interviewing

Making lives of CEOs and Owners easier | Helping entrepreneurs launch their tech to market within 6 months | Fractional CTO | Makes sense when it is needed the most 🔥

Why I Do This?

I’ve seen too many promising ideas fail, not because the founders lacked vision, but because their products couldn’t keep up with the demands of real users.
I help you avoid that trap.

I dive deep into what makes customers stay, what makes them leave, and what makes them love a product enough to tell their friends. I focus on designing systems that can scale to millions of users without breaking - technically or financially, and that harness AI where it truly adds value.

This isn’t about chasing hype. It’s about building products people can’t live without. Products that feel effortless to use, yet are engineered with precision under the hood.

If you’re ready to turn your idea into something people love, let’s make it real.

👉 DM 'SCALE' or visit rohangirdhani.com to chat about turning your idea into a SaaS product that truly scales.

📩 info@rohangirdhani.com

Rohan Girdhani

Founders have creative minds.
They want to build the best.
But the ones who truly succeed
keep showing the same pattern.

I’ve seen beautifully designed, highly scalable products
turn into quiet memories.

And I’ve seen simple, almost boring products
scale relentlessly.

The difference isn’t intelligence or effort.
It’s alignment.

These are the questions founders need to ask in 2026:
- Why am I building this — is it just market potential?
- Do I genuinely care about this problem?
- Do I know real people struggling with it?
- Do my strengths actually match what this needs?
- If I had to sell today, who would I call first?

Because when the why is weak,
every setback feels personal.
Every pivot feels confusing.
Every delay drains energy.

But when the why is clear,
even chaos makes sense.

Paths change.
Products change.
Circumstances change.

The founders who hold onto their why
always outlast the ones who forget it.

My job isn’t just building products anymore.
That’s the easy part now — especially with AI.

The real work is alignment.
Making sure the founders win.
And the customers win with them.

Because when the care is real,
scale follows.

To more aligned, profitable startups in 2026 🥂

Rohan Girdhani (The TechDoc)

The Product Builder Behind 30+ Bold Startups | 82% Success Rate | I Build. You Launch. We Scale. | I’m the guy founders call when they’re done playing safe.

Working with a founder is more about energy
than product or tech alone.

Before there’s a team,
they are the team.

They’re carrying vision, doubt, pressure, hope all at the same time.

Early-stage startups don’t move like navies.
They move like pirate ships.
Fast. Scrappy. Directional.
No room for ego. No time for noise.

What actually wins at this stage isn’t brilliance.
It’s mindset:
• Trusting each other’s strengths
• Keeping the room hopeful when things get hard
• Killing bad ideas quickly
• Finding a way forward, no matter the situation

Skills can be learned. Product can be built.

When I work with a founder,
it never feels like a job.
It feels like working with a friend
who genuinely wants to win.

And my role becomes simple
be the backbone when things get heavy.

Because when the energy is right,
the odds don’t just improve
they bend in your favor.

Software is actually simple.
We just make it complicated.
Here’s an easier way to think about designing great product.

Think of your product like your home.
From the outside, it should feel welcoming.
Clean. Intentional.
No clutter pretending to be personality.

When someone arrives, you don’t overwhelm them.
You help them unload the day.
A place for their shoes.
Somewhere to put their bag.
A moment to breathe.

Then comes a small reward.
A drink.
A coffee.

Something that says, “You’re in the right place.”
Only then do you offer what they came for.
Food. Conversation. Comfort. Value.

And when they leave, the feeling is simple:
“That was easy.”
“That felt good.”
“I want to come back.”

That’s the real customer journey.
• Clean, thoughtful design
• Remove friction before asking for effort
• Reward action, even small ones
• Deliver immediate value
• Give a reason to return

Do this consistently,
and you stop designing software.
You start designing experiences.

And experiences are what people remember.

One of the most underrated uses of ChatGPT right now.
Building mental models and mind maps.

Most people use it just to chat.

But the real power is using it to untangle messy thinking 
and make better decisions.

When there’s no mental model,
teams keep talking in circles.

When there is one,
alignment becomes easier
and execution becomes faster.

Here’s how I use it:
- Define the real problem
- Share context about the product or business
- Explain where we are and where we want to go
- List possible options and constraints
- Ask ChatGPT to turn it into a structured model

Then I refine the image —
zoom in, crop sections, improve specific parts.

What used to take hours in flowchart tools
now takes minutes.

And we’re getting approvals for execution
faster than ever.

Not because we communicate better.
But because we see the problem more clearly together.

If you haven’t tried using ChatGPT this way yet,
it’s worth experimenting.

Churn is the word most founders quietly fear. 
And it makes sense. 
It feels unpredictable. Messy. Out of control. 

But what if churn isn’t random? 
What if the decision to leave happens much earlier 
inside the product itself? 

In specific flows. 
Specific moments. 
Where intent quietly dies. 

If those moments could be spotted early and fixed directly in code… 
that changes the game. 

There’s a tool exploring this way of thinking.
It’s called Limeloop.
https://limeloop.app

If this resonates, you’ll know why.

Today I shipped something I never planned to build.
It came out of years of working with founders.
Different products.
Different markets.

Same quiet problem.
Users sign up.
They try the product.
And then… they don’t come back.

Everyone looks at dashboards.
Everyone stares at charts.

But no one can answer the real question:
Why did the user mentally leave?

While building alongside founders, 
I kept seeing it happen inside the product itself.
- In the flows.
- In the friction.
- In the moments where intent quietly dies.

So I built Limeloop.
Not as an analytics tool.

But as a way to look at retention from the code up.

Limeloop:
• Reads your codebase
• Maps real user flows
• Finds where users drop off — before retention crashes
• Explains why they don’t return
• Suggests fixes at the code level, ordered by impact
• Gives you a clear retention health picture

No vanity metrics. No guessing.
No “maybe try this” advice.
Just clarity.

I built this while working with founders 
who cared deeply about what they were building — 
and didn’t want growth to be a guessing game.

Limeloop is live now.
If you’re a founder building something real
and retention keeps you up at night…

You’ll probably resonate with this.
👇
 https://limeloop.app

After testing 5,600+ vibe-coded apps,
34,232 security vulnerabilities were found.
Nearly 60% of these apps had serious security flaws.

The most common issues weren’t surprising:
• Leaked API keys and secrets
• Exposed assets
• Code paths vulnerable to common attacks

And honestly, this was inevitable.

Vibe coding is powerful.
It helps founders validate faster than ever.
That part is a win.

The risk starts when validation quietly turns into production.
What began as “just a prototype”
ends up touching real users, real data, real money.

Vibe-coded apps are a great starting point.
But once you see signal,
they need to be wrapped, hardened, and scaled the right way.

Speed gets you attention.
Quality keeps you alive.

If you’re building fast — just make sure you pause long enough
to turn momentum into something reliable.

Full report here 👇
https://lnkd.in/gztihfdE

Don’t overthink your product.
Founders are especially vulnerable to feature addiction.

The more experienced you get,
the more you want to do right by the customer.
You don’t want gaps.
You don’t want excuses.

So you start adding everything:
• What looks cool
• What competitors have
• Even the 2/10 “just in case” features

And somewhere along the way…
you stop shipping.

Now the product feels heavier.
The message gets blurry.
And customers don’t know what problem you’re actually solving.

Instead of solving one problem exceptionally well,
you’re solving many problems poorly.

That’s when you quietly turn into a tech company.
And that’s usually not why you started.

Ship faster.
Let the gaps be intentional.

Gaps help you learn:
• How customers actually understand the product
• Whether it’s truly helping them
  Or if they’re trying to solve a completely different pain

Start with your experience.
Then hand over the responsibility to customers as early as possible.
They’ll tell you what matters — if you let them.

I recently spoke with a founder.
Strong real estate platform. Clear demand.
They were spending $5k+ every month on ads
and pulling in ~200 signups.

From the outside, marketing looked solved.
Inside the product?
Most users were disappearing midway.

When I asked why —
there was no clear answer.

We ran Limeloop.
It showed a 42% retention rate
and pointed to specific breaks in the code and user flow.

Not guesses. Not charts.
Actual moments where user intent quietly died.

We fixed those.
Within one week,
they retained 50% more users into the next stage.

Same traffic.
Same ads.
Better retention.

That’s the difference between
spending more and understanding better.

If you want your retention auto-tested the same way
and see exactly where users mentally drop off,
reply “Retention.”

Thousands of businesses say they’re ready
to move towards digital transformation.

Most million-dollar companies aren’t blocked by money
or ambition.

They’re blocked by the lack of a blueprint.
They know something needs to change,
 but not:
 • what to fix first
 • where technology actually helps
 • how changes connect to outcomes

I see this pattern more often than I expected.

More software isn’t the answer.
It’s knowing which software,
where,
and why.

Without a blueprint,
execution becomes expensive movement.

AI models are just new engines in the car.
But raw power means nothing
if the body, transmission, and steering aren’t built to handle it.

That’s where most AI products quietly fall apart in production.

Simply swapping models won’t:
- Reduce token cost
- Guarantee better answers
- Fix context hallucinations

The real differentiator is your RAG pipeline.

A solid RAG system looks like this:
- Clear data sources — one version of truth
- Well-structured vector storage for fast retrieval
- Graph connections to link related knowledge
- A middleware layer that selects the right context
- Context merging logic before the model ever sees it

Only then do you send data to the AI.

And the output?
That depends on your product:
A dashboard, chart ,PDF, image, decision
Doesn’t matter.

What matters is this:
If your RAG system improves with every new interaction,
every new data point,
every correction…

You’ll outperform teams using newer models
with weaker foundations.

Reliable AI products aren’t model-first.
They’re data, context, and system-first.
And that’s where the real edge is built.

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